Political Economy, Political Theory and History

On 4 November 2015, France’s labour minister, Myriam El Khomri, launched a reform of the labour law. The two main objectives are to revise the entire labour code and to give company-level agreements a central role, against a background marked by unemployment reaching 10.6 per cent of the active population in November 2015. In absolute terms, that represents 5.5 million people overall, relative to 4.62 million in May 2012, when François Hollande took office. For the French president, who (…)